By Punjabnewswire4u
LUDHIANA,
OCT 17
In
a bid to optimally utilize recycled agriculture waste in the state as
alternative fuel, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today
constituted a committee under the Secretary Agriculture Mr. KS Pannu to explore
the feasibility of implementing this project successfully in the state with
collaboration of a private firm.
A
decision to this effect was taken by the Chief Minister in a meeting with the
owners of the company and officers of the Industry and Pollution Control department
here today. During the meeting the Chief Minister asked Mr. Pannu to study all
the aspects of this project so that it could be effectively implemented in the
state for benefitting the farmers. Mr. Badal said that Punjab had abundant
quantity of Biomass being an agrarian state which could be optimally used for
captive power generation. This would not only enormously benefit the farmers of
the state but would also supplement their income considerably besides the
effective management of this waste.
The representatives of ‘Riela’ company led by Mr. Karl Heinz Knoop gave a
presentation regarding their project to the Chief Minister here at the local
circuit house during which they apprised him about the entire technology
through which the agriculture waste would be effectively utilized for producing
a fuel which would act as alternative to the Coal in running the Thermal
Plants, Cement Factories and Brick Kilns. The Chief Minister was apprised that
the company would purchase the agriculture waste like straw from the farmers
and produce the burning pellets from it by installing the Pelleting plant. Mr.
Badal was informed that this fuel would be cheaper than coal and would help in
enhancing the income of farmers by 10%.
The Chief Minister
was accompanied his Advisor Mr. Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Secretary
Agriculture Mr. KS Pannu, Director Industries Mr. Vikas Partap and Deputy
Commissioner Mr. Rajat Aggarwal.
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